Sentences with phrase «immigrant community says»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been saying all the right worlds when it comes to standing up to President Trump's recent immigration - related executive orders, but one advocate for New York's immigrant community says he would like to see a little less talk and a little more action.
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This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.
He said having shelters in Massachusetts would have no impact on town budgets and when an immigrant child moves into a community, he said, «it's just as if your cousin moved to town.»
«We're part of a community of companies that is helping [immigrant] customers understand the landscape of financial services» in the U.S., said Raul Vazquez, chief executive of Oportun.
«The Trump administration has made very clear that they've declared war on the immigrant community on all levels,» said Javier Valdez, co-executive director of the advocacy group Make the Road New York.
The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.
Although many immigrant entrepreneurs choose to cater to a community they are familiar with, «I think success comes when you try to go out of your comfort zone,» Jain says.
As late as the 1970s, Italian immigrant communities of Pentecostals were still saying to their American counterparts «you do not know the Catholic Church» in reference to their experiences in Italy.
Russian and Polish immigrants are particularly drawn by district and community services, said Trisha Dean, assistant principal of student services.
For that reason, and because of the multitude of community projects that I have been responsible for, such as: construction of low - income housing; repair of train stations; re-pavement of streets; Implementation of charter schools; services for senior citizens, immigrants, non-medallion taxi car drivers, and many more initiatives, I believe that the residents of the 32nd Senatorial District in Bronx County have been well represented during the past 15 years,» he said.
«If somebody thinks that donating to community groups that fight for communities of color and immigrants is corruption than they are obviously not paying attention to New York politics,» she said.
Needless to say, anti-immigration debates continue to be loud, and are largely informed by a worldview at odds with itself, in which host communities are pitted against a deluge of immigrants — a burden on the economy and a marching in of an inflexible and alien culture.
This offers some support to Hopkins» politicised places hypothesis, which says that in communities which are undergoing demographic changes at the time when salient national rhetoric politicizes immigration, immigrants can quickly become the targets of local political hostility.
«Our members endorsed Luis Sepulveda because of his history of standing up for his community in the Bronx, for immigrants and for all working families in our state during his time in the State Assembly,» said 32BJ President Hector Figueroa.
«The Korean immigrant community has been in some ways deprived of receiving city benefits,» he said and one of the main causes of this deprivation is that «we need to participate politically.
There is a sizable Puerto Rican community with long links to Rangel and, Falcón says, some tension with Dominican immigrants; all Puerto Ricans can vote.
James Hon, the co-director of the MinKwon Center for Community Action, an organization that opposes tighter immigration enforcement, said he'd like to see programs like Stringer's, «rather than spending billions of dollars on more detentions and faster deportations for our immigrants as the Trump administration has proposed in his recent budget, not to mention an even greater amount, billions more, for a ridiculous wall.»
Rallygoers said that safety - net hospitals provide essential medical care for immigrant patients and communities of color.
Stringer, a Democrat, said he felt compelled to act «with the Trump administration ratcheting up its attacks on immigrant communities, with more frequent raids.»
«The Latino community will move this country forward in the years to come,» said Lucia Gómez - Jiménez, Executive Director of the immigrant advocacy group La Fuente...
Confer said the city has a five - borough strategy but plans to prioritize certain communities, referencing the city's work in the South Bronx, central Brooklyn and parts of Queens, as well as immigrant communities.
D'Amato also said the Republican Party needs to come to grips with the country's growing Latino community by changing its tone on immigrant matters.
«He has been a real friend to the immigrant community,» said Bryan Pu - Folkes, a Jackson Heights resident and immigration attorney whose mother comes from Burma and father from Jamaica.
Bloomberg's bid for a third term in the city's highest office got a boost from borough immigrant community leaders Sept. 2 who praised what they said were the mayor's immigrant - friendly policies.
Astorino said that he is working on an Executive Order that will assuage the anxiety of many in the undocumented immigrant community that they can not report crimes or seek medical assistance for fear that they will be deported.
Our communities are going to be energized because nobody wants that discourse to dominate that conversation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said, adding that immigrants who are not eligible to vote can still become involved in the cause by volunteering for other candidates.
«I'm actually dedicating my speech to Donald Trump, because I think that thanks to his lovely anti-immigrant rhetoric, his misogyny, his bigotry, he's really galvanizing and mobilizing and energizing immigrant communities across the nation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico and the first Latina to be Council speaker, said today during a press conference at City Hall.
«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.
Bringing up his three college - age daughters who he said are frightened about the new direction of the country, Cuomo ripped what he called the new «extreme right wing agenda that will trample on our rights» and has placed women, immigrants and members of the LGBT community under attack.
Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), said the organization's upstate partners in central and western New York have been working on the ground from Rome to Rochester to highlight the «tragic deportations and fear» that ICE has brought about in the state's immigrant communities.
«We recognize and we need to, again, have another discussion on community - based organizations that serve marginalized communities, immigrant communities, either the Asian community, organizations that serve women and girls and communities of color and recognize that they are disproportionately under - resourced in the city of New York,» she said.
Walter Barrientos, Long Island coordinator for Make the Road New York, a nonprofit immigrant rights organization, said a Trump visit would divide the community and do little to bring «real solutions» to the problems of gang violence.
Speaking to ITV News today, the former Prime Minister said that while many communities were struggling, the finger should not be pointed at immigrants, most of whom «work really hard in our country».
«If somebody thinks that donating to community groups that fight for communities of color and immigrants is corruption then they are obviously not paying attention to New York politics,» Nixon said.
Throughout his career, Shafran said he worked to ensure constituent services were effective in northeast Queens communities for seniors, the disabled, immigrants and beyond.
NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, an advocate for immigrants and the Latino community, said she would dedicate a speech she is delivering on immigration in Washington D.C., tomorrow to Trump because his rhetoric about immigrants has helped engage them in the political process.
«We will continue to use all of the tools at our disposal and bring to justice those who commit fraud against our immigrant communities,» Mr. Schneiderman said.
Afterward, Hochul said, that the class is a great way for recent immigrants to also learn how to fit in to the community.
«Kearns has a record of voting against marginalized populations: women, the LGBTQ community, refugees and immigrants,» Cichon said.
I applaud this effort to ensure that immigrant New Yorkers feel they are safe and that cooperating with local police is in everyone's best interest to ensure the safety of our communities,» said State Senator Gustavo Rivera.
«Limiting ICE's access to detainees at Riker's Island is a very important step in the right direction toward protecting our immigrant communities,» said City Council Education Committee Chair and Bills Co-Sponsor Daniel Dromm.
«This savage move against our brother Ravi Ragbir is an attack on his family, colleagues, and the immigrant communities to whom he's devoted his life,» said Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC).
«I was thrilled to see such a diverse range of residents in my district participating in the process this year including formerly incarcerated youth, public housing tenants, and members of our immigrant community,» said Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito.
Carlucci, an Independent Democrat, says the event aims to help the local immigrant community understand its rights and provide ways to defend itself.
Espaillat, who served as a state Assemblyman for Inwood and Washington Heights for 14 years, thanked the Dominican - American community of Upper Manhattan during his address and said his political success was built on the hard work of immigrants who came before him.
Thus, we stand together with state and city officials and other advocates to protect the rights of our nation's immigrants and refugees in these difficult and troubling times,» said Lauren Wyatt, Esq., Staff Attorney, Immigration Court Helpdesk, Catholic Charities Community Services.
«We are committed to reaching the immigrant community,» said Outreach Campaign Director Bitta Mostofi.
«Immigrant communities have been under sustained attack,» said NYIC Executive Director Steven Choi.
«The GOP is dead to our community,» said Deyanira Aldana, 21, a protester who is the child of Hispanic immigrants.
«We are committed to reaching the immigrant community who, for whatever reason, did not have access to photo identification before,» said Bitta Mostofi, the city's Municipal ID Outreach Campaign Director.